whetted
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Whetted by his first stroke of high finance, Fisk brashed into Wall Street, but with indifferent success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whetted, stirred up, made sharp or eager, e.g. "the whetted Wrath."
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by Turner, Winifred
Whetted to eagerness by the previous conflict between him and Galvani, the scientific men of the age flung themselves with ardour upon the new discovery, repeating Volta's experiments, and extending them in many ways.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
"Whetted?" says I to myself, "and a spirit?" and peeked from the window.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
Whetted as I am, thou wilt not blunt me by argument.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois
